My love, my passion, my iPhone

This is a story of true love. Where two soulmates meet and find everlasting happiness.  And like all true loves stories (I'm sure the movies would never misrepresent this), the girl initially spurned her eventual love.  He was too flashy and too trendy.  He was everything she wasn't looking for.  In fact, it was her husband that introduced them and forced them into a relationship.

In other words, when my husband went to pick up my phone with our new provider, I left explicit instructions for a phone with long battery, good antenna, and NOTHING ELSE.  He brought me home the iPhone.  I was mad ... and then I turned it on.  I've been in love ever since.

{Note- For his work he had a pretty fancy blackberry and felt bad that his tech heavy phone was better than his tech savvy wife's phone.  He knew I would love it if I could get over my distaste for spending money and so he bought it.   He was, of course, right.}

Let me give you a glimpse into our relationship.  Last Tuesday we went to the zoo.  In that day we used my phone to google (another tender love of mine) the following:

• Difference between Highway and Freeway

(Highway is any road connecting towns and states, Freeway is a highway without stop signals and crossing traffic and with limited access points on and off)

• Oligarchy

(A type of government where the power to rule is held be a limited, elite group.  Peter was right when he made that guess.)

• Why are some flamingos not pink?

(The pink color is due to chemicals in the food they eat.  Zoo flamingos are sometimes fed coloring agents to help mimic wild flamingos color, but are usually a paler pink)

• Difference between cocoon and chrysalis

(cocoon = moth, chrysalis= butterfly.  My 2nd grader schooled us all with that tidbit.  Google proved her brother wrong!)

• Where did the symbol for female come from?

(Most people think it is a contraction of the Greek symbols for Venus)

In addition to using google on the internet...

• we looked up price houses of a town we were driving through (realtor.com app). Houses outside of NYC are as expensive as we thought.

• I beat a couple sudoku puzzles (sudoku daily app)

• We found and rented a movie to pick up on the way home (redbox app).

• We found out why the actress playing the mother in Where the Wild Things Are looked familiar (iDbM app).  She is also the mom in the Lightening Thief.

• I found out my sister came within 100 points of beating my Tetris Friends score on Facebook. (facebook app and email function)

• We found out the etymology of the words male, female, man, and woman (browsing Wikipedia while searching the female sign thing).  I will hereafter refer to men as werman and women as wyfman, or maybe not.

How can you not love a phone like that?


Also, how can you not love a road trip with so many random and curious questions?